LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Thematic Evaluation of William Golding’s Novel, Lord of the Flies

Mohammad Rahman, M.Phil. Scholar (English Literature) ISPaR Peshawar

Abstract

This research study aims at attempting to assess thematically the underlying ideas implied by the novel, Lord of the Flies. The novel reflects quite effectively the social and cultural conditions of the contemporary times. It revolves around the idea of the evil which is inherent specifically in human nature and in society at large. The author asserts the view that man is evil by nature. It is that culture and pressure of civilization which stops that evil from emerging sometimes, but as soon as that sociological and civilizational barrier has been removed, then the human heart comes out in its true shape and shows the bestial instinct quite fearlessly.

Moreover, the author has also woven a web of thematic elements that holds together the novel, Lord of the Flies in a clever, artistic way. Above all, the thematic elements involved in the novel are the emergence of evil, the loss of civilization, the motif of power, the fate of the intellectual, the uncertainty of life, rules and orders, loss of innocence, primitivism, symbolic manifestations and the tone of pessimism. I have applied the methods of historical and textual approaches for the evaluation of the thematic concerns of the novel.

Key Words: Golding, Lord, Flies, Evil, Thematic, Evaluation, Civilization, Motif

Introduction

The English Nobel laureate, Sir William Gerald Golding (1911-1993) published his first novel, Lord of the Flies in 1954. Like many other contemporary novelists, Golding seems to have been influenced by the annihilation and the aftermaths of the Second World War. The novelist creates a microcosm dominated by the evil impulses which are inherent in human beings.

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Mohammad Rahman, M.Phil. Scholar (English Literature)
Institute of Social Policy & Research (ISPaR), Peshawar
Bacha Khan University, Charsadda
KPK, Pakistan

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